PTSD, Anxiety, and Bad Sleep Feed Each Other: Mark Lee Fox on the Therapies That Help You Break the Cycle

The Advisor with Stacey Chillemi · Dec 9, 2023 · 40m

You cannot sleep because your mind will not slow down. Because you did not sleep, the anxiety is louder the next day, and if trauma is part of the picture, it hits harder when you are exhausted. For many people living with PTSD and anxiety, sleep is not a separate problem. It is part of the same loop. Mark Lee Fox joins Stacey Chillemi to talk about how that cycle works and the evidence-based therapies he uses to help people interrupt it. What he shares about addressing anxiety, working with PTSD, and rebuilding restful sleep will give anyone stuck in that pattern, or supporting someone who…